RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Questions regarding email filter...

[Simon W. <es...@ou...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:12, Wizard wrote:
> > in...@bl... is valid too. And what is a standard anyway ?
> 
> Standard (U.S.): A car with a manual-shift transmission.

That's the great thing about standards, there are so many to choose
from.

> > Finland has no second level domain structure. e.g. www.genelec.fi is a
> > valid domain.
> 
> I never liked the Saab, either. Can't they do anything right ;-).

That's OK. Saab isn't Finnish.

> > > 2.> Do email addresses ever have port numbers appended, like this:
> > > fr...@fs...:24
> > > ? Let me know.
> >
> > Not that I know of but there are a *lot* of ways of expressing comments
> > and so on in email addresses that you may need to take account of.
> 
> The question is 'Do I?', or can I just assume the most typical formats and
> ignore the rest (for blocking, anyway)? I can probably account for 99% of
> formats, and then do a final string_match for emails in the 'allow_user'
> configuration variable. Will this work?

Can we turn it up the other way and ask what it is you are trying to
accomplish ?

> > Do you mean .us domains of G-TLD's like .com and .org ?
> 
> The latter, as anything else should be handled by the international code.

whithouse.gov ? nasa.gov ?

Simon